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The Letterboxd video store is live and with it came a handful of festival darlings which, without distribution deals, were destined to fall between the cracks. The only English language film of the bunch, Alexander Ullom’s It Ends  serves as an excellent example of just what this selection of movies stand for. That being the type of movie you watch debut with a hushed audience in South by Southwest’s Paramount Theater or Telluride Colorado’s ice rink: thrilled to dissect with

Roofman was a movie that came out recently, and it was one that I had wanted very much to see in theaters. But I never got around to finding the time to do so; it came and left the cinema pretty quickly without leaving too much sign of its existence. Luckily, it was a short-lived break between its theatrical window and its streaming one, as Roofman debuted on Paramount Plus recently. Magic Mike himself, Channing Tatum, plays the lead here: the titular "Roofman", Jeffrey Ma

Every so often, I am reminded of how little I care for director Todd Phillips. I've written on this before , but it's something I come back to every now and again. If I were to look it up , I would see that Phillips' exact quote was "Go try to be funny nowadays with this woke culture... There were articles written about why comedies don’t work anymore—I’ll tell you why, because all the fucking funny guys are like, ‘Fuck this shit, because I don’t want to offend you.’” The pro

Mike ( Frank Dillane) is a street urchin in London, struggling to just get by. When we first meet him, he's chasing down a friend that's stolen his wallet. A scuffle ensues between the two men, one that is largely ignored by nearly everyone just casually walking by. Eventually, a decent man, Simon (Okezie Morro) steps in and breaks things up, even offering to take Mike for a bite to eat. As the two men begin to walk to a nearby bagel shop, Mike attacks Simon and steals his wa

Nicolas Cage movies are basically their own genre at this point. The chameleon-like actor continues taking weirder and weirder roles, as...